Wilkes County Time Capsule, Wilkesboro NC,USA - Time Capsules on Waymarking.com

The burial of a time capsule during a ceremony on the Wilkes County Courthouse lawn on Dec. 2, 1978, culminated the observance of Wilkes County’s 200th anniversary. The capsule was buried by the Bicentennial Commission.

The Dec. 4, 1978, issue of the Journal-Patriot said items buried in the time capsule (actually a burial vault from Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home) included “a telephone instrument, telephone directory, newspapers, governmental documents, rare knives, coins, mirrors from Carolina Mirror Corp. and Gardner Mirror Co., local church literature, expired driver’s licenses and papers related to the history of the county.”

The plaque reads;

THE BICENNIAL COMMISION
BURIED A TIME CAPSULE VAULT SIX
FEET UNDER THIS MARKER
DECEMBER 2,1978,TO HONOR WILKES
COUNTY'S 200TH ANNIVERSARY.
THE VAULT IS TO BE EXAMINED
DURING THE TRICENTENNIAL BY
ORDER OF THE COMMISIONERS

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